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Requirements
[edit source]Whenever you upload an image, you should meet the following minimal requirements.
- Always tag your image with one of the image copyright tags. When in doubt, do not upload copyrighted images.
- Always specify on the description page where the image came from (the source) and information on how this could be verified. Examples include scanning a paper copy, or a URL, or a name/alias and method of contact for the photographer. For screenshots this means what the image is a screenshot of (the more detail the better). Do not put credits in images themselves.
Rules of thumb
[edit source]Below this brief checklist of image use rules is the detailed reasoning behind them.
- Use the image description page to describe an image and its copyright status.
- Use a clear, detailed title. Note that if any image with the same title has already been uploaded, it will be replaced with your new one.
- Upload a high-resolution version of your image whenever possible (unless the image is being used under fair use; see Fair use considerations for details), and use the automatic thumbnailing option of the Wikipedia image markup to scale down the image. MediaWiki accepts images up to 20 MB in size. Do not scale down the image yourself, as scaled-down images may be of limited use in the future.
- Crop the image to highlight the relevant subject.
- If you create an image that contains text, please upload also a version without any text. It will help Wikipedians translate your image into other languages.
- Try not to use color alone to convey information, as it is inaccessible in many situations.
- Use JPEG format for photographic images; SVG format for icons, logos, drawings, maps, flags, and such; PNG format for software screenshots and when only a raster image is available; GIF format for inline animations; and Ogg/Theora for video.
- Add a good alternative text for images.
- In general, there is no need to specify thumbnail size. Users can select their ideal size in preferences.
- Do not place shocking or explicit pictures into an article unless they have been approved by a consensus of editors for that article.
Non-free use
[edit source]- Main page: Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline
When a non-free image is used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use, a justification for its usage, called a fair use rationale, must be presented in the Image description page. A separate rationale must be provided for each use of the image. If you are claiming fair use, you must include two things on the image description page:
- An appropriate fair use license tag. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/Non-free for a list.
- A detailed fair use rationale.
This justification will help other users determine if the "fair use" could apply to a wide variety of uses or a narrow range of uses. It will also help determine if the given claim of fair use is appropriate for Wikipedia in the first place.
Images that do not include both a fair use copyright tag and a detailed fair use rationale will be deleted!
License templates
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This work is copyrighted (or assumed to be copyrighted) and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content § Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content § Audio clips, and it is not covered by a more specific non-free content license listed at Category:Wikipedia non-free file copyright templates. However, it is believed that the use of this work:
qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights. To the uploader:
|image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template. | |
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This image is a screenshot of a copyrighted television program. As such, the copyright for it is most likely owned by the company or corporation that produced it. It is believed that the use of a limited number of low-resolution screenshots
qualifies as fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. To the uploader:
|image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template. | |
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This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright. The use of low-resolution images on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, of logos for certain uses involving identification and critical commentary may qualify as non-free use under the copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. Certain commercial use of this image may also be trademark infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Logos.
Use of the logo here does not imply endorsement of the organization by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor vice versa. To the uploader:
|image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template. |